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Pictures of the Hotel Solamar
Picture of a bathroom in a guest suite at Hotel Solamar, the newest Kimpton boutique hotel in San Diego just across from Petco Park. Share Some Good Travel Deals
When was the last time you visited our budget travel forum? It's a great place to share ideas, triumphs and challenges with fellow travel enthusiasts. Why should you make the... Who Wants a Pleistocene-Era Backyard?
While casting about for feel-good stories, we remembered the lost and starving Magellanic penguins that were airlifted to safety by the Brazilian army last fall. The young penguins, whose home is in the southern Atlantic, had wandered too far north, washing up on the warm beaches of Brazil by the hundreds, and the situation looked grim when "animal-welfare activists loaded the birds onto a Brazilian air force cargo plane and flew them 1,550 miles to the country's southern coast, where a crowd of onlookers celebrated as the penguins marched back into the sea." Definite feel-good material.
Exterior of an Igloo
Spend the night in one of these igloo hotels, made entirely of snow and ice. C.M., Wrist: Bedbug Bites
C.C.'s Wrist: Pictures of bedbug bites by real people bitten by bedbugs.
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